Question

When you mix sodium, which is a soft silvery metal, with chlorine, which is a yellowish gas, a solid white crystal called sodium chloride is formed.

Which are the reactants?
A.) sodium and sodium chloride
B.) sodium chloride and chlorine
C.) sodium and chlorine

Answer 1

C. Sodium and chlorine. You react them to get sodium chloride

Answer 2

The correct choice is

C.) sodium and chlorine

In a reaction, reactants are the compound or elements which gets combined or reacts to give another compound known as product. Here sodium is getting combined with chlorine gas to give the product as sodium chloride. hence Sodium and chlorine can be termed as reactants and sodium chloride can be termed as product.